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Yeah, you are correct, but I think we have a few dozen letters less in out longest word.

Could you tell us what you have? We might be able to make a few suggestions from your stuff and proxies. Dwarves sounds like Cities of Sigmar (warriors to guards or ironbreakers, thunderers to handgunners, quarrelers to crossbowmen, hammerers and longbeards as-is). For your greenskins, it really depends on what you have.

Or, German has only one megaultraword, and all the others are just part of it.

Massive tangent, but the 400.000 word count is every word from 1500 to 1976, under 25% are still in use, the word count in the current dictionary is reported to be around 90.000, 100.000 for German, and 171.476 (words currently in use) for English. Languages are listed more than once in the list. I don't have a Dutch dictionary, but I'm sure "borrowed" words like computer and training are in there.

I think it's a case of Dutch and German having simply less words than English, which makes translating them back to English use a smaller set of words I do prefer open testing, like WotC's UA or Pathfinder 2. Coasters still don't have a price on it though, probably just on the site to add the SKU if you buy a big boi and to show whether they are still in stock.

I agree. Every new d&d edition after 2nd, a group of fellow DM's run a few test games to see what's what. We also call these test games (or Rage, Loot and Pillage, after the first three characters we tested). But then, I'm also not native English.

Another option is to put some clear or black flat rounds under them. Functionally the same. I agree with City of Sigmar, keywords like "human" don't do anything*, and if you are clear in how you proxy, I don't see any reason why people should be weird about it. I also have Glade Riders with pistols and machine guns. Work perfectly fine.

As for RPG lite, I thought there was no character improvement in Warcry? That, to me, is key in making it an RPG like experience. Even something small like the companion progression in Rangers of Shadowdeep is still progression. I now realise the rules are scattered among cards and white dwarves at the moment, so maybe my hope for Warcry was in vain. I think my wishes for a wargame are incompatible with GW, so I'll just keep to the models. In short, I like the following in a skirmish game: Progression for every model Miniature agnostic Simplicity Balance Comprehensive This is probably because of where I am in my "maturity" for wargaming. I have not played a lot, so am satisfied with a simpler system, and I hail from RPG's, so like my progression and freedom of models.

I don't like overcomplicating rulesets, and I don't like spending a lot of money on rulesets. At best, I'm a casual wargamer, which means about 2 games per month. This means a simpler ruleset will work fine for me. GW's rulesets have a depth to them that I'm simply not interested in. I also value balance over uniqueness, and while GW is good at uniqueness, balance is less consistent. I also prefer using my own models (or have anyone use their own models) which GW's rulesets are not designed around. Then there's the point of price, and GW is quite a bit more expensive than companies like Osprey. I will also just use my own lore, and thus have no need for GW's lore (which also puts me off tonally, except in a few cases like Goblins, half of Cities and Kharadron). I want to know the opponent's options and understand them as well as knowing my own options and understand those. The more of these options get locked away in books, the less I am able to do that. I'm not saying anyone else is doing their hobby wrong, but the strong suits in GW's rulesets are not that important to me, while their weakpoints are important to me.

The main draw Warcry had for me, would be drop in games outside of my regular group. I'd only play one or two warbands. This means that with new books coming out, chances are I'd spend as much (or more) on paper as on plastic (and that's for a fixed model game), which I don't do. I also don't pirate. I already have a few non-progression skirmish games, so I don't need it.

What a beast! That must have been quite an undertaking to paint!

For me, it killed interest in Warcry. Fits the GW rules scheme though.

Interesting. Coasters don't have a price in US, NL or UK, but are no longer available in New Zealand. Edit: also no warscroll cards in US.

As a cat owner, can confirm that I regularely put paint and superglue to my cats*. Children are probably the same. * More accurately, cats put paint and once even superglue on themselves, and even more often, cat hair on minis.

Congrats! Now go hug it, build it and paint it! Also: I see the coasters are on the GW website separately. Just not with a price.

I'm tempted by Blood Bowl. I already have a few teams, and what's in the box is interesting. Down to the referees, I see an Elven cleric and dwarven wizard there. If the Dreadfane warbands get released separately, that might interest me.

You could just get any clear acrylic rod and saw it off at the angle that you want.

Oh, I do agree my thought is tenuous at best, they don't fit the old squats and I don't know much about 40k there is very little reasoning for it. The hand weapon and pistol thing also feels a bit like 40k. They are the logical evolution of the weird engineering stuff, and I think the old dwarves also had a metal zeppelin. The 40k theory just sticks a bit to me. It might also have been the start of a design for 40k, but expanded for AoS, but since 40k started as a reimagining of Fantasy. That might be why it sticks to me. The main reason I hope they put it to 40k is that this gives them a reason for more Kharadron sets. It is a logical progression from the Gyrocopter and dwarven engineer, but still, my mind keeps thinking it had its origins in 40k.

I find Mechanicus with their jezails and particular brand of mechanisation also quite fantasy (for Skitarii at least). Not that far off Kharadron. Their superfluous word is "Overlord", which is the name of the armoured zeppelin the Squats had. I think the similarities speak for themself. Squats now reexist in Necromunda, GW introduced two of them last year, and Tech Priest Grombrindel also exist. Just in 2019, GW axed more sets for AoS than the Squats ever had. AoS would fit better as a term of being removed than being squatted. For me, I don't care about 40k, though I will get a box of Skitarii rangers. If they do some Kharadron stuff, I might like it, but possibly it's just not worth the hassle.

I am convinced the Kharadron were originally meant for 40k, but when AoS needed a new army, they put it there. Which doesn't matter, they fit nicely between Mechanicus and Gyrocopters in tech level.

It's the Kharadron Squats!

Well, I'm not really interested in the game, just in the models. I did build a brickton of pistoleers and outriders for a Tempest's Eye army, but that's never going to be completed because it's boring to do. I'm not interested in having a playable army, I just like painting Steampunk dwarves. This happens to end up at about 2000 points when I'm about complete with the models I like (so it's not an army per se, I don't intend to play them). I don't think I'd be able to make a horde army, because it'll get boring.

For my Kharadron, that was a conscious choice. I like the aesthetic, but repetition isn't my thing. So I build and paint each of them, do some kitbashing with Blood Bowl models, and move on to the next. The only one I have multiple is the Underworld team. Though I have a reducing amount of Freeguild Guard, building and painting all of them would seem like a chore instead of a joy.

I have calculated what I have purchased for Kharadron, and it turns out it's 1400 points (though quite a bit of that was originally the Dwarf Blood Bowl team). With the planned Ironclad, that adds up to a full army (Ironclad +Navigator + Endrinrigger, they are included). I had a Cities army, and then I purchased the collection of a friend, which was about another 3k points, (which I am now winding down again). But then, I also have some Tsaangors, blood bowl teams, and a few Underworld warbands that have not a single use in an army that I might be interested in.

It's in the mail!